TSO 2: Reclaiming the Odyssey

The crew heads toward the bridge, the command and control center of the ship

01:45 @ 2236-10-03

Stinger opens the door just as Alandra begins tapping and you stare at each other a mooment. Vague recolections go through your minds but another headach distracts you from any solid details.With life support moving to reclaim the ship, lights coming back on, and a trio of survivors now on the bridge you feel a sence of hope and control over what was chaos and the unknown when you awoke.

Moving to your respective terminals on the bridge you find that the majority of ships systems are still locked out but you have sub-light thrusters, shields, and life supports. From what you can tell something in engineering is working on resoting ships systems but all attempts to reach engineering and all sensors to it have been cut. The emergency allert system may still be connected in there but you have no way of knowing.

Adonis works on getting external and internal sensors back online Roll a 2 tests, add aproach details if you have any ideas and aplicable traits/background

Stinger has been able to reconstuct the ships flight path within this system and found records of the ship stationing itself over a habitable plannet for a couple of days before heading to orbit this gass giant. You can roll to help with resotoring sensors ro continue to dig into the logs. Let me know.

Alandra checks over the condition of the others. Though Adonis is an inorganic her instruments have his vitals on file and she is able to determin that he is working within normal parameters. Scans of Stinger rveal he is also healthy but that he suffered recent trama indicative of oxogen deprivation. Apparently the bridge O2 levels dipped to low whne life-support was reduced but there are no signs of permanant damage. There are howerver signs of both his and her own body fighting the same infection. Odd. Few infections can cross alien physiology. She say signs of this in medbay but as it was not a major concern at the tme had moved on to more pressing matters. Roll test to diagnose the infection and/or recover previous logs on it. Same as with Addonis roll and add details

Adonis scans the others and for a biefest instance his visor flickers into an unknown mode. I converts the entire roome into wireframs figures but highlights points or light, that Adonis realizes are floating in the air and clustered in the bodies of the others. Before he can react to look at himself the visor reverts to passive mode and his sight returns to normal.
Checking internal sensors he finds they are still locked out but he figures that once they get the entire crew they might be able to do some adjustments to the ship roster to get around the lockout. As he tries varies systems his access does give him access to he notices that all of engineering is entirely offline. It is not locked out like most of the rest but just unresponsive. Battle damage perhaps? The thsters worked and power is getting to the rest of the ship so at least the reactor is working.

After investigating he concludes that both the officers either took turns locking down systems or ech was trying to lock out the other. Firts officer and captains at odds, a mutiny, and you are all here on the abandoned ship. If you can get to the main processor and reset it to factory default from the hardcoded backup you might be able to designate a new captain and reset all the system lockouts. That will take some time but without a system analyst you lack the skill to circumvent the ships security measures.

Alondra After scanning the others and treating minor ailments, the others being more or less health given their situation, Alondra tries to scann deeper. The med bay scanners can do better but are also slower. A quick scan reveals that all on teh bridge are suffering the same infection, even the Autoborg coms officer AAdonis. Narowing it by comparison you isolate a crystalin life form that binds to nerves and circuits alike. As you scan you find signs os a treatment applied within the last week. Syncing your PDA with a general purpose terminal on the bridge you check with the medbay logs and find teh formula for the treament and are able to access the logs.
Though the source of the infection is never identified there is an exhaustive study of the infection before the treatment was developed. The treatment limits the growth of the infectioon but also has negative effect on those being treates as the treatmetn is very painful, even to teh Autoborg. The treatment was a stop gap to give extra time for additional analasys. only it looks like whatever that was got wiped form the system along with most of the recorded data on the infection.

Fortunatlely Alondra had a habit of adding tidbits of her daily rutine to her own diary. She should be able to write a simpe search to help retrieve data from that, once she gets it straightened out. It too has had its key works and date index stripped from the system. A recoery program might help but tough no novice to basic programs Alandra is no hacker or system admin.

Working together you gain access to
1. Basic Propulsion
2. Short range sensors & Camouflage holograms
3. Limited internal sensors (cameras, motion sensors, and intercom)
4. Basic navigation logs
5. Shield controls & Cloaking
6. Short Range Communications
7. Life Support
8. Medical bay: Sensors, treatment pot, & Records (There are signs of tampering but this is in better shape than other logs)
9. Personal crew and public ships logs but all of the dates are scrambled and some entries seem to be corrupted.
As much as you try you find that there are some systems the three of you can not access
1. Engineering
2. Astrogation and FTL logs
3. Weapons
4. Long Range Communications
5. First officers & Captains rooms and logs
6. Full internal sensors

Assessing the ships status, as best you can you learn
1. The ships shuttle is missing
2. One of the cargo holds external doors was forcibly breached and is now sealed/welded shut
3. Signs of heavy battle are centered around the cargo hold but there are signs of small weapons use throughout the ship
4. You have plenty of food, water, and other basic supplies, but limited fuel at the moment (2/10). You will need to go to engineering and get it back online for more
5. The ship has some minor damage, mostly on propulsion, that was more severe but was repaired at some point

Sam enters the bridge and feels a sense of relief. Even though she can't recall the last six weeks her previous memories are still six weeks old and older. Vague recollections of crew briefings and social minglers where they all met, trained, and got to know each other.

The others have similar experiences. It's like the longer you are up and focusing on event the more you can recall. As Alandra runs her scans on Sam she finds similar results to the others. With all the cybernetic implants in the engineer it may be that analyzing her is the key to finding out more about the crystalin infections. Checking her logs on Sam, now that she can trigger of of her current scans she finds promising notes in her records. However additional research and testing will be needed before she is willing to enact another treatment. For this she will need to get the medbay back to full functionality, try to find any early samples to see if the infection has any mutations before or after the first treatment and then revise her notes proposed treatment plan based on those findings. The notes look promising and the current infection is not too bad so there must be something missing in the logs she has uncovered to cause her to try the stop-gap treatment instead of waiting for a complete cure.

As Alondra scan Sam and explains a bit about the crystalin virus Sam takes a look at the med PDA and compares the virus to her own systems diagnostics. While the crystalline virus (CV) has been causing some of the system glitches on the ship they are not related to the log file corruption and software virus (SV) which from what the two can determine was inserted into the system before the CV. While the CV is a concern the SV may actually be a larger threat at this time and is impeding work to resolving the CV infection.

Sam has cleared engineering and all of her tools of the SV so needs to be careful when connect any of her diagnostics tools to the ships systems or risking spreading the SV further.

Stinger, as a pilot, may have not been paying attention in the training sessions before the crew launched and so missed the fact that the ships fuel is generated by the Reactor. The cargo hold could have some spare fuel but with the reactor online there is no reason for you to be out of fuel. Unless there is another problems preventing the reactor from filling the fuel tanks.

The others are able to quickly pick up the minor task of isolating systems and helping Sam ash she preps to reinitialize the medbay. Alandra backs up all log to simple formats that can be cleaned and transferred to the reinitialized system. By the end of the hour engineering and the medical bay are both deemed sanitized and Alondra has a basis for further testing with a single physically isolated terminal in the room left with the original medical logs.

While backing up and cleaning what she can Alondra finds another interesting record.
While doing this it is decided to backup all logs to a stand alone system and isolate it from the rest of the ship. This will let you try and recover data on it without re-infecting active systems. However without the full processing power of the ship this would be slowed down. The bigger the system used for this purpose the quicker and more accurate the data recovery of the existing logs will go. The two least critical system is the Rec. Room its media library has the capacity to hold the entire ships backup if needed so Stinger and Adonis work on that.

Stinger finds another record that may be relevant as it indicates astral navigation was lost shortly after the attack. Perhaps the virus was injected into the ship systems by the attackers?
As they work Adonis notes that the ship is detecting in system coms chatter but can not pinpoint the location or content with the current stat of the ship systems

Sam theorizes she may be able to clear the trojan once the EIW AI finishes a full analysis of the SV. But for now this is the best solution without the risk of data loss and further system corruption.

With all key data of navigation, communications, astrogation, and medical logs backup up you can now move to the other systems. The other quickly learn how to help with the minor, though exhaustive task of disconnecting all system interfaces and each additional heler can cut the time for Sam to repair another system by 25%. You move on the Life support as the next most key system but then need to pick a priority.

Chronometer(Date&Time): 02:45 @ 2236-10-03